Saddam and al-Qaeda »
Posted by: pc25 4 months agoClaims that there were no links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda are wrong. Documents just released by the Pentagon prove it. In March 2008, the Pentagon released a document that details some of the classified documents from Saddam's regime.
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pc254 months ago
FTA
what the Pentagon papers state on Saddam and terrorism.
"Saddam's interest in, and support for, non-Iraqi non-state actors was spread across a wide variety of revolutionary, liberation, nationalist, and Islamic terrorist organizations. For years, Saddam maintained training camps for foreign 'fighters' drawn from these diverse groups. In some cases, particularly for Palestinians, Saddam was also a strong financial supporter. Saddam supported groups that either associated directly with al-Qaeda (such as the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, led at one time by bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri) or that generally shared al-Qaeda's stated goals and objectives."[6]
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pc254 months ago
I think this link will take you to a PDF download of the Pentagon report
http://a.abcnews.com/images/pdf/Pentagon_Report...
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pc254 months ago
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iraq/sa...
Salman Pak / Al Salman
Former Iraqi military officers have described a highly secret terrorist training facility at Salman Pak, where both Iraqis and non-Iraqi Arabs receive training on hijacking planes and trains, planting explosives in cities, sabotage, and assassinations. Iraq told UN inspectors that Salman Pak was an anti-terror training camp for Iraqi special forces. However, two defectors from Iraqi intelligence stated that they had worked for several years at the secret Iraqi government camp, which had trained Islamic terrorists in rotations of five or six months since 1995. Training activities including simulated hijackings carried out in an airplane fuselage [said to be a Boeing 707] at the camp.
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pc254 months ago
http://edwardjayepstein.com/2002question/salman...
A second Iraqi defector, a former intelligence officer who defected in early 2001 , described "Islamicists" training on a Boeing 707 parked in Salman Pak from about 1995 to as recently as September 2000. Neither defector said any efforts were made to hide or conceal the Boeing from satellite photography.
After September 11th, a private US satellite photo company, Space Imaging, went through its archives and found a photo that included a plane parked in the Salman Pak compound.
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pc254 months ago
The National Reconnaissance Office collates, analyzes and distributes the intelligence gleaned from satellite imagery in Iraq. If it had pictures of an airliner, Boeing or whatever kind, permanently stationed inside the Salmon Pak complex, it is reasonable to assume that they would not have withheld them from the CIA. If so, the CIA had photographic evidence confirming defectors claims that Iraq was practicing, if not preparing, covert actions against a Boeing prior to September 11th.
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CRYMTYPHON4 months ago
This is a 'kevin bacon' article; showing that people in the Iraq government knew people that knew people that supported Al-Qaeda.
It throws in some 'there may have been's,
and even mentions a photo that might have once existed.
It skips the facts that prevented cooperation between Ossama and Sadaam:
1) Al-Qaeda is a Saudi Fundamentalist group at war with the secular; including the Bathists who ran Iraq.
2) Sadaam's main enemies were the Saudi wahabis like Ossama and the Iranian Shiites, who, unlike the Iraqis, were rabididly anti-american.
Ironicly, Bush's ties to the Saudi royals gave him a closer connection to Ossama than is drawn for Sadaam.
In short: this article is a review of a report of assessments of possible connections; the writer picks through things and presents a conclusion not in the report.
Which is why the Pentagon has not announced any dramatic new finding.
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pc254 months ago
kiss my bacon...........that's not what it says.......again
Saddam supported groups that either associated directly with al-Qaeda (such as the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, led at one time by bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri) or that generally shared al-Qaeda's stated goals and objectives."[6]
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CRYMTYPHON4 months ago
It would certainly have saved Bush's bacon if the report had proven Sadaam worked with BinLaden.
Instead the White House and the Pentagon downplayed the report and discouraged questions about it.
Primarily because:
1) it found no mention of attacking America. In hundreds of thousands of captured government documents!
2) if found no organizational link between the Iraqi Regime and AlQuaeda. BinLaden and Ossama were enemies with mutual friends.
Your best strategy with this, if you want to keep on, is to keep linking to biased 'interpretations' of the report, like the Weekly Review; and keep people away from reading the actual report.
Don't let them click here:
http://www.jfcom.mil/newslink/storyarchive/2008...
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pc254 months ago
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Ar...
Saddam's Dangerous Friends
An abstract that describes the study reads, in part:
Because Saddam's security organizations and Osama bin Laden's terrorist network operated with similar aims (at least in the short term), considerable overlap was inevitable when monitoring, contacting, financing, and training the same outside groups. This created both the appearance of and, in some way, a 'de facto' link between the organizations.
Among the study's other notable findings:
In 1993, as Osama bin Laden's fighters battled Americans in Somalia, Saddam Hussein personally ordered the formation of an Iraqi terrorist group to join the battle there.
For more than two decades, the Iraqi regime trained non-Iraqi jihadists in training camps throughout Iraq.
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pc254 months ago
In 2002, the year before the war began, the Iraqi regime hosted in Iraq a series of 13 conferences for non-Iraqi jihadist groups.
That same year, a branch of the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) issued hundreds of Iraqi passports for known terrorists.
"Captured documents reveal that the regime was willing to co-opt or support organizations it knew to be part of al Qaeda--as long as that organization's near-term goals supported Saddam's long-term vision."
n 1989, Ayman al Zawahiri attended the founding meeting of al Qaeda. He was literally present at the creation, and his EIJ "dominated" the new organization headed by Osama bin Laden.
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AbuAmirah4 months ago
This article can call Saddam a terrorist, but which government it was that supported this animal? Who was it that supported his war against Iran? Which superpower gave this dude the green light for his middle eastern ambitions, as long as it didn't include the zionist entity?n I'll give you a hint, it wasn't the Soviets!
Yeah, Saddam was going to align himself with a group that ultimately wanted to get rid of him to. Yeah, I get it
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Mutainia3 months, 3 weeks ago
Hey, when it comes to those who armed him, you forget the old Soviet Union and France. By the way, Saddam might not have been in bed with OBL, but, he was haboring terrorists and paying the Palestinian families of suicide bombers in Israel, to encourage terror against Israel....in otherwords, supporting terror. Oh, but, to YOU, that would be considered a GOOD thing, true? Because Israel is so evil in your Islamic way of thinking, true?
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